Removals

Chilly, damp and gray today, in the 40s, but then in the afternoon the sun came out and it got up into the high 50s.  Everything looked better with the sun out.  Yesterday was Bob McGoldrick's funeral --- a cold wet day and a sad day, although the mass was truly a celebration and it was good to see old friends from work.

Today I took things out.

• Removed the last of the irises in the front walk and put them in the Birch Garden.
• Removed the perennial foxgloves from the east side.  Gone.  Didn't like them so much.
• Took out the hops vines.  No place to transplant them so they are gone.
• Removed more daylilies from Meadow's Edge. They are completely wrapped around the maple's roots and impossible to dislodge.  Where space was freed up I moved the small Goldflame spirea.
• Removed lots of grass from garden edges, and weeded some.

I divided the two blue eyed grass clumps into six plants along the edge of the gravel garden.

In the Birch Garden I moved some sundrops so they were not so crowded, and some columbines from where they had seeded.  I divided and moved several of the Elfin Pink penstemons back from the very edge of the garden too.

Last year in March the ground was still too frozen to work.  Here I am this year digging and weeding and moving and dividing, all in mid March, in cool but comfortable weather.  Wow.